If the richness of a community lies within its people, then
HillCounty
is sitting on a golden egg. It is rewarding
to say that our community is filled with compassion and a progressive spirit aimed
towards the correction of pet overpopulation.Since Hill County Paw Pals originated some six years ago, our community has
witnessed unprecedented achievements due to the backing of concerned citizens towards
our achievable goals.Paw Pals can
now boast the most recent purchase of property with making reality of the vision
of establishing county animal control.
However, in the interim, it must remain clear that Paw Pals can not and will not function
as county animal control (a level that we will continue to work
towards). Initially, the facility will
open as a limited private pet adoption center operated solely with volunteers and
donated funds.It will always remain
Paw Pals’ premise that proactive county animal control is a core service expected
by tax paying citizens that can be prioritized into the existing budget without
raising taxes.

Proactive animal control has three essential components of which two have already
been established by Paw Pals—Education and Low Cost Pet Sterilization.The third and equally important proactive program is the legislation component
which currently remains to be developed as a county governmental entity for the
enforcement of animal control laws.
Think of these three proactive programs as a three-legged milk stool where each
program must work simultaneously together towards correcting our pet overpopulation
issue.Without this complete package,
we will only witness the worsening of our pet overpopulation issue.

We remain blessed to live in
HillCounty
which is rich because of its outstanding and compassionate people—our golden egg.It is the duty and privilege of every
citizen to become civically involved in shaping our community.We encourage the involvement of all citizens in
HillCounty
to become involved in molding a better community.Paw Pals believes the elected officials of our county and communities will
welcome concerns and input from the public on combating the ever worsening problems
associated with pet overpopulation such as unregulated breeding of pets and animal
abandonment—the very root of pet overpopulation.Our elected officials are your representatives and they work for you so please
become a part of the solution and communicate with them.

Paw Pals’ public meeting is scheduled March 4th (first Thursday) at 6:30pm at
1500 South Abbott Avenue
(new property location) which is next to TXDOT on SH81 as you travel south to
HillsboroHigh School
.For more information about Paw Pals,
please call 580-0679, email hcpawpals@yahoo.com
or visit www.hcpawpals.org.